Curry driver Abdul Samad ‘hacked to death on delivery’

Curry delivery driver Abdul Samad was ambushed and hacked to death in a street, a court has heard.

Abdul Samad was a curry delivery driver (Picture: Alamy)

AAbdul Samad â known as Kemal â suffered 18 wounds to his head and body after he was lured to a residential street and chased by two men armed with a meat cleaver, knife and baseball bat, prosecutor Mark Ellison QC said.

âThe order from a public telephone kiosk was clearly to lure Kemal to a relatively quiet location,â he added.

The 25-year-old, who had only recently opened the Curry-in-a-Hurry shop near the scene of the attack, was holding the takeaway until just before the attackers caught him.

A friend said Mr Samad was threatened for refusing to get involved in a dispute between two groups of men two weeks before the attack in Canonbury, north London, in May 1997.

âThey said if he didnât sort it out, they would kill him,â Mr Ellison said. Mohiuddin Bablu, 37, who was extradited from Bangladesh last year, denies murder.